Grade 11 Healthy Active Living Education Additional Supports ...
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Coping Mechanisms<br />
The following are defense mechanisms from psychoanalytic theory that are maladaptive<br />
in nature versus coping strategies that are adaptive in nature.<br />
1. Compensation<br />
When one exaggerates a desirable trait to reduce the feeling of inferiority<br />
caused by an undesirable trait.<br />
2. Rationalization<br />
When one explains oneÕs undesirable or foolish behaviour or failures by<br />
giving a reasonably but untrue explanation for it.<br />
Examples:<br />
• Òsour grapesÓ Ð a person unable to obtain what he/she wants maintains<br />
that he/she did not want it anyway<br />
• Òsweet lemonsÓ- instead of trying to convince ourselves and others that<br />
we did not actually want the thing we were after, we talk ourselves into<br />
believing that our present situation really is best for us.<br />
3. Projection<br />
When one places the blame elsewhere.<br />
4. Identification<br />
When one imitates the behaviour and mannerisms of someone else.<br />
5. Regression<br />
When one recalls pleasant experiences making the past appear much more<br />
attractive than it actually was or when oneÕs behaviour regresses to an<br />
earlier stage of development.<br />
6. Repression<br />
When wishes, thoughts, and experiences associated with unpleasantness<br />
are excluded subconsciously from awareness.<br />
7. Suppression<br />
When one dismisses a thought or unpleasant experience.<br />
8. Fantasy and Daydreaming<br />
When one escapes from difficulties of real life with preoccupying<br />
thoughts.<br />
9. Withdrawal<br />
When a person persistently retreats from a situation in which he/she is<br />
experiencing difficulty.<br />
10. Displacement<br />
When one redirects emotion toward a subordinate person or thing.<br />
<strong>Grade</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>Healthy</strong> <strong>Active</strong> <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Education</strong> (PPL30), Module #2 Positive Mental Health and Stress<br />
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